Bashar al-Nuaimi

Al-Mosuliya TV

October 24, 2013, in Mosul, Iraq

Unidentified gunmenshotdead Bashar
al-Nuaimi, a cameraman for the local Al-Mosuliya TV channel, near his home in
the Al-Nabi Sheet neighborhood, news reports said.

Murad Ghazi, deputy manager of
Al-Mosuliya, told CPJ that the channel often reported critically on the local government and had recently been
targeted by a smear campaign that accused it of serving U.S. interests.

Omar Ghazi, the station's deputy administrative
manager, told CPJ that several journalists had decided to quit the station after
al-Nuaimi was murdered. They said they felt they lacked serious protection from
the government.

In December 2013, another Al-Mosuliya
journalist, Nawras al-Nuaimi, was shot dead by unknown militants outside her home.

Militant groups like the
Al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State in Iraq and Sham have historically targeted
journalists in Mosul whom it considers collaborators
with the U.S.-backed Iraqi government, according to CPJ research.

With the resurgence of militant
groups across the country, there has been a spike
in general violence in the country as well as a rash of journalist killings in
Mosul.

According to the Iraqi
Journalistic Freedoms Observatory, Iraqi security forces recently discovered a
purported assassination list of 44 journalists during a raid on a building in
Mosul that housed militants. It is not clear if any of the most recent killings
were related to this list, but several journalists in Mosul say anti-government
militants are targeting journalists considered supportive of the government.